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Your RAM won't work with your Motherboard. You either need to get a motherboard with DDR3 support or upgrade your RAM to DDR4.

I highly suggest upgrading your RAM because a)DDR4 is going to be the new standard, if not already it will be in a year. b)Skylake boards with DDR3 have had questionable performance and stability thus far.

The rest seems to be fine, if you don't care how the case looks and you just want it to function and not necessarily go deep into overclocking I suggest looking for cases that specify in silence. Silent cases aren't always the best lookers (at least nothing fancy) and don't really have great airflow but it's going to be relatively quiet if that GTX starts blowing.

The ms increase is minimal from 120hz, so don't let yourself be contrained by that. Unless you want to do 3D things.
That being said, 120hz and 144hz shouldn't differ in price that much anymore, might as well get the better one.

Wait for Kabylake CPUs at they are coming out in November (if you can wait that long). Performance will be better than Skylake, and apparently skylake had some misc issues that are addressed in Kabylake.

Get REGULAR DDR4 RAM! Don't get Super OC bullshit. Just get density with standard DDR4 speed (2133MHz iirc). Do not spend more money on fast ram as you probably won't notice the difference (but can cost 2x as much). Make sure your ram is compatible with the board! Make sure your board NATIVELY supports the speed (IE 2133 memory). Make sure there isn't a * beside your ram's speed when you are buying your motherboard, as it means it doesn't have native support but you can OC the ram to match. Which is bad and dumb.

A reputable dealer selling non-OC versions of motherboards is your best bet for this. ONLY GET WHAT YOU ARE PLANNING TO USE. Buying a $300 motherboard is such a waste when you can buy a $50-$80 motherboard that does the exact same job. There is NO performance difference between Z series and (H?B?) other series! ASUS / MSI / ASROCK are great motherboard retailers. Some people like Gigabyte. Steer away from others.

And FFS don't overclock. You kill your warranty the second you turn it on, for any component. If you want to fuck around with overclocking buy a cheap pentium and fuck around with that. Don't fuck around with $500 chipsets in $200 motherboards.

Make sure the motherboard you buy has 4-pin connectors for fans! This lets your PC control the fan speed by the motherboard and can help keep your system cool and quiet.

Wait for Kabylake CPUs at they are coming out in November (if you can wait that long). Performance will be better than Skylake, and apparently skylake had some misc issues that are addressed in Kabylake.

And FFS don't overclock. You kill your warranty the second you turn it on, for any component. If you want to fuck around with overclocking buy a cheap pentium and fuck around with that. Don't fuck around with $500 chipsets in $200 motherboards.

You are correct that there is no point in overclocking a brand new processor. You will want an unlocked K version in the future though. I still use my overclocked i5-2500k and it competes just fine with newer processors at stock speeds. Saves me from having to buy a new motherboard and processor every three years.

Don't wait if you are buying right away. Skylakes are OP but if you need to wait anyway, Kabylake will be out. Might even be able to get deals on Skylakes soon anyway.

Also protip, make sure your case has fans near the hard drives. Even if you only have 1 hard drive, a cool drive will last infinitely longer.

I was just working on a server that we have to replace the drives on every 3-6 months (and they are WD RE enterprise drives). They run 24/7 doing recordings for IP cameras, but the drives die because they get too hot and start getting bad sectors early. A cool PC is a PC that lasts decades.

1070 and 1080 both have 8GB GDDR5, but the 1080 has GDDR5X, which has a higher bandwidth. So it's better for Video-Memory intensive things, like GTA. Also more cuda cores obviously. But 1070 is a good "Bang for Buck" if you're trying to be budget friendly.